16th century in literature
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1501
- Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an edition of Virgil. Manutius also publishes an edition of Petrarch's Le cose volgari and first adopts his dolphin and anchor device.
1502
- Aldine Press editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus' Histories and Sophocles.
1507
- King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar.
1508
- April 4 - John Lydgate's The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes the first book printed in Scotland.
- The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, is published in Castilian at Zaragoza.
- Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh.
1509
- Desiderius Erasmus writes The Praise of Folly while staying with Thomas More in England.[1]
1510
- April 10 - Henry Cornelius Agrippa pens the dedication of De occulta philosophia libri tres to Johannes Trithemius.
1510–1511
- Ein kurtzweilig Lesen von Dyl Ulenspiegel, geboren uß dem Land zu Brunßwick, wie er sein leben volbracht hat … is published by printer Hans Grüninger in Strassburg in Early New High German, the first appearance of the trickster character Till Eulenspiegel in print.
1512
1513
- Aldine Press editiones principes of Lycophron, Lysias, Pindar and Plato published by Aldus Manutius in Venice.
- Niccolò Machiavelli is banished from Florence by the House of Medici and writes The Prince as De Principatibus ("About Principalities") in Tuscany this summer.
- Johannes Potken publishes the first Ge'ez text, Psalterium David et Cantica aliqua, at Rome.
1514
- May 15 - The earliest printed edition of Saxo Grammaticus' 12th-century Scandinavian history Gesta Danorum, edited by Christiern Pedersen from an original found near Lund, is published as Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae by Jodocus Badius in Paris.
1515
- Paolo Ricci translates Sha'are Orah by Joseph Gikatilla as Portae lucis.
1519
- Apokopos by Bergadis, the first book in Modern Greek is printed in Venice.
- The chivalric romance Libro del muy esforzado e invencible caballero Don Claribalte ("Book of the very striving and invincible knight Don Claribalte"), the first literary work by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, is published in Valencia (Spain) by Juan Viñao. In the foreword, dedicated to Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, Oviedo relates that the work has been conceived and written in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (the Caribbean island of Hispaniola), where he has been working since 1514; therefore, it can claim to be the first literary work created in the New World.[2]
1522
- Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century compilation Romance of the Three Kingdoms is first printed, as Sanguozhi Tongsu Yanyi.
- Martin Luther's translation of the Bible's New Testament into Early New High German from Greek is published.
1524
- Eyn Gespräch von dem gemaynen Schwabacher Kasten ("als durch Brüder Hainrich, Knecht Ruprecht, Kemerin, Spüler, und irem Maister, des Handtwercks der Wüllen Tuchmacher") is published in Germany, the first publication in the "Schwabacher" blackletter typeface.
1526
- Spring - The first complete printed translation of the New Testament of the Bible into English by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany, having been printed in Worms. In October, Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London, attempts to collect all the copies in his diocese and burn them.
- The first official translation is made of the New Testament into Swedish.
- The Bibliotheca Corviniana in Ofen is destroyed by troops of the Ottoman Empire.[3]
1530
- January - The first printed translation of the Torah into English, by William Tyndale, is published in Antwerp for distribution in Britain.
- Paracelsus finishes writing Paragranum.
1533
- October - The censors of the Collège de Sorbonne stigmatize François Rabelais' Pantagruel as obscene.
1534
- Martin Luther's Biblia: das ist die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch, a translation of the complete Bible into German is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg, including woodcut illustrations.
- Cambridge University Press is granted a royal charter by King Henry VIII of England to print "all manner of books" and becomes the first of the privileged presses.
- Rabbi Asher Anchel's Mirkevet ha-Mishneh (a Tanakh concordance) is the first book printed in Yiddish (in Kraków).
1535
- The earliest printed book in Estonian, a Catechism with a translation by Johann Koell from the Middle Low German Lutheran text of Simon Wanradt, is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg for use in Tallinn.
1536
- Petar Zoranić writes the first Croatian novel, the pastoral-allegorical Planine ("Mountains"); it is first published posthumously in Venice in 1569.
1537
- Construction of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice to the design of Jacopo Sansovino begins, continuing to 1560.
- Paracelsus starts to write Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World.
- December 28 - Ordonnance de Montpellier initiates a legal deposit system for books in the Kingdom of France.
1538
- Paracelsus finishes writing Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World.
- December 20 - Pietro Bembo is made a Cardinal.
1539
- April - Printing of the Great Bible (The Byble in Englyshe) is completed and it is distributed to churches in England.[1] Prepared by Myles Coverdale, it contains much material from the Tyndale Bible (unacknowleged as this version is officially considered heretical).
- Game Place House in Great Yarmouth becomes the first premises in England to be used regularly as a public theatre.[4]
- Marie Dentière writes an open letter to Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the King of France; the Epistre tres utile, or "very useful letter", calls for an expulsion of Catholic clergy from France.
- The first printing press in North America is set up in Mexico City. The first known book from it, Manual de Adultos, is published in 1540.[5]
1540
- Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates first performed, privately.
1541
- Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.
1550
- Primož Trubar's Abecedarium and Catechismus, the first printed books in Slovene, are published in Tübingen.[6]
- Approximate date - First publication in book form of the Chinese shenmo fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi.[7]
1551
- An edition of the Book of Common Prayer becomes the first book printed in Ireland.
1552
- June - Sir David Lyndsay's Middle Scots satirical morality play A Satire of the Three Estates first performed publicly in full, at Cupar in Fife.
1554
- Publication of Menno Simons' Uytgangh ofte bekeeringhe begins the Dutch Golden Age of literature.
1565
- Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
1567
- October 14 - António Ferreira becomes Desembargador da Casa do Civel and leaves Coimbra for Lisbon.
1571
- October 7 - Naval Battle of Lepanto; Miguel de Cervantes is wounded.
- Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.
1572
- Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage.
1575
- September 26 - Miguel de Cervantes is captured by Barbary pirates. After 5 years he is ransomed.
- Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereaux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella.
1576
- December - James Burbage builds The Theatre, the first permanent public playhouse in London, opening the great Elizabethan age of English Renaissance theatre.
1586
- October 17 - Poet Sir Philip Sidney (born 1554) dies as a result of wounds received at the Battle of Zutphen.
1590
- A troupe of boy actors, the Children of Paul's, are suppressed because of their playwright John Lyly's role in the Marprelate controversy.
1596
- Blackfriars Theatre opens in London.
1597
- Ben Jonson is briefly jailed in Marshalsea Prison, after the suppression of his play, The Isle of Dogs.
1598
- September 22 - Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is briefly held in Newgate Prison.
- December 28 - The Theatre is dismantled in London.
- Thomas Bodley refounds the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.
1599
- Spring/Summer - Globe Theatre built in Southwark, London, utilising material from The Theatre.
- June 4 - Bishops' Ban of 1599: Thomas Middleton's Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires and John Marston's Scourge of Villainy are publicly burned as the English ecclesiastical authorities clamp down on published satire.
- Late - War of the Theatres, a satirical controversy, breaks out on the London stage.
New books
1500
1501
- The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous)
- Marko Marulić - Judita
1503
- William Dunbar - The Thrissil and the Rois
- Euripedes - Tragoediae
- Approximate date: "Robin Hood and the Potter" (ballad)
1505
- Georges Chastellain - Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps (posthumous)
- Stephen Hawes
- The Passtyme of Pleasure
- The Temple of Glass
- Lodovico Lazzarelli - Crater Hermetics (posthumous)
1508
- Johannes Trithemius - De septem secundeis
- William Dunbar - The Goldyn Targe
1510
- Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo - Las sergas de Esplandián
- Ruiz Paez de Ribera - Florisando
1511
1512
- Henry Medwall - Fulgens and Lucrece
- Huldrych Zwingli - De Gestis inter Gallos et Helvetios relatio
1513
- First translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas
1514–15
- Gian Giorgio Trissino - Sofonisba
1516
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa
- Dialogus de homine (Casale)
- De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum
- Robert Fabyan (anonymous; died c. 1512) - The New Chronicles of England and France
- Marsilio Ficino - De triplici vita
- Thomas More - Utopia
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa
1517
- Francysk Skaryna's Bible translation and printing
- Teofilo Folengo's Baldo, a popular Italian work of comedy
1518
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa - De originali peccato
1522
- Luo Guanzhong (attrib.) - Romance of the Three Kingdoms; first publication
- Martin Luther - New Testament translation
1523
- Martin Luther - Pentateuch translation
- Maximilianus Transylvanus - De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation
1524
- Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 1: Books 1-6); first publication (Paris)
1525
- Pietro Bembo - Prose della volgar lingua
- Francesco Giorgi - De harmonia mundi totius
- Paracelsus - De septem puncti idolotriae christianae
- Antonio Pigafetta - Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo ("Report on the First Voyage Around the World"); partial publication (Paris)
1526
1527
- Hector Boece - Historia Scotorum
- Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 2: Books 7-8); first publication
1528
1530
- William Tyndale - The Practice of Prelates
1531
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa - De occulta philosophia libri tres, Book One
- Andrea Alciato - Emblemata
- Sir Thomas Elyot - The Boke Named the Governour, the first English work concerning moral philosophy
- Paracelsus - Opus Paramirum (written in St. Gallen)
- Michael Servetus - De trinitatis erroribus ("On the Errors of the Trinity")
1532
- Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
- François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) - Pantagruel (Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua)
- Feliciano de Silva - Don Florisel de Niquea
1533
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa - Books Two and Three of De occulta philosophia libri tres
1534
- Asher Anchel - Mirkevet ha-Mishneh
- Martin Luther - Bible translation Biblia
- François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) - Gargantua (La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel)
- Polydore Vergil - Historia Anglica
1535
- John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners - Huon of Bordeaux
- Simon Wanradt and Johann Koell - Catechism
1536
- John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion (in Latin)
- Sir Thomas Elyot - The Castel of Helth
- Paracelsus - Die große Wundarzney
1538
- Hélisenne de Crenne - Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours
- Sir Thomas Elyot - The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght (Latin to English)
1539
- Robert Estienne - Alphabetum Hebraicum
1540
- Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece, translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland
- The Byrth of Mankynde, the first printed book in English on obstetrics, and one of the first published in England to include engraved plates
1541
- George Buchanan
- Baptistes
- Jephtha
- Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh - Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia
- George Buchanan
1542
- Paul Fagius - Liber Fidei seu Veritatis
- Edward Hall - The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke
1543
- Nicolaus Copernicus - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)
- Andreas Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human body in Seven Books)
1544
- Cardinal John Fisher - Psalmi seu precationes (posthumous) in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Queen Katherine Parr
- John Leland - Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae
1545
- Roger Ascham - Toxophilus
- Bernard Etxepare - Linguae Vasconum Primitiae
- Sir John Fortescue - De laudibus legum Angliae (written c. 1471)
- Queen Katherine Parr - Prayers or Meditations, the first book published by an English queen under her own name
1546
- Sir John Prise of Brecon - Yn y lhyvyr hwnn (first book in Welsh; anonymous)
- François Rabelais - Le tiers livre
1547
- Gruffudd Hiraethog - Oll synnwyr pen Kembero ygyd (posthumous collection of Welsh proverbs made by William Salesbury)
- Martynas Mažvydas - The Simple Words of Catechism (first printed book in Lithuanian)
- Queen Katherine Parr - The Lamentation of a Sinner
- William Salesbury - A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe
1548
- John Bale - Illustrium majoris Britanniae scriptorum, hoc est, Angliae, Cambriae, ac Scotiae Summarium... ("A Summary of the Famous Writers of Great Britain, that is, of England, Wales and Scotland"; 1548-9)
1549
- Johannes Aal - Johannes der Täufer (St. John Baptist)
- The Complaynt of Scotland
1550
- Martin Bucer - De regno Christi
- The Facetious Nights of Straparola published in Italian, the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales
1552
- François Rabelais - Le quart livre
- Gerónimo de Santa Fe - Hebræomastix (posthumous)
- Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians), composed in Nahuatl by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badiano.
1553
- Francesco Patrizi - La Città felice ("The Happy City")
1554
- Anonymous - Lazarillo de Tormes
1559
- The Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which remains in use until the mid-17th century and becomes the first English Prayer Book in America
- Jorge de Montemayor - Diana
- Pavao Skalić - Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum tam sacrarum quam profanarum epistemon
1560
- Jacques Grévin - Jules César
- William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson - Geneva Bible
1562
- William Bullein - Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes
1563
1564
1565
- Camillo Porzio - La Congiura dei baroni
1567
- Joan Perez de Lazarraga - Silbero, Silbia, Doristeo, and Sirena (MS in Basque)
- Magdeburg Centuries, vols X-XI
- William Salesbury - Testament Newydd ein Arglwydd Iesu Christ (translation of New Testament into Welsh)
- Séon Carsuel, Bishop of the Isles - Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh (translation of Knox's Book of Common Order into Classical Gaelic)
1569
- Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga - La Araucana, part 1
- Petar Zoranić - Planine
1571
- François de Belleforest - La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse), the first French "pastoral novel"
- Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma (first printing in Irish)
1572
- Friedrich Risner - Opticae thesaurus
- Turba Philosophorum
1576
- Jean Boudin - Six livres de la République
- George Pettie - A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure
- The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies
1577
- Richard Eden - The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies
- Thomas Hill - The Gardener's Labyrinth
- Raphael Holinshed - The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande
1578
- George Best - A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie…under the Conduct of Martin Frobisher
- John Florio - First Fruits
- Jaroš Griemiller - Rosarium philosophorum
- Gabriel Harvey - Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae
- John Lyly - Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit
1579
- Stephen Gosson - The Schoole of Abuse
- Thomas Lodge - Honest Excuses
1581
- Barnabe Riche - Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme
1582
- George Buchanan - Rerum Scoticarum Historia
- Richard Hakluyt - Divers Voyages
- John Leland - A learned and true assertion of the original, life, actes, and death of the most noble, valiant, and renoumed Prince Arthure, King of great Brittaine (posthumous translation)
1583
- Philip Stubbes - The Anatomy of Abuses
1584
- James VI of Scotland - Some Reulis and Cautelis
- David Powel - Historie of Cambria
- Reginald Scot - The Discovery of Witchcraft
1585
- Miguel de Cervantes - La Galatea
- William Davies - Y drych Cristianogawl
1586
- John Knox - Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland
- John Lyly - Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne
- George Puttenham (attr.) - The Arte of English Poesie
- Luis Barahona de Soto - Primera parte de la Angélica
1588
- Thomas Hariot - A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
- Thomas Nashe - The Anatomie of Absurditie
1590
- Thomas Lodge - Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie
- Thomas Nashe - An Almond for a Parrat
1592
- Robert Greene - Greene's Groatsworth of Wit
- Gabriel Harvey - Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets
- Richard Johnson - Nine Worthies of London
1594
- Sir John Davis - The Seamans Secrets
- Richard Hooker - Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
1595
- Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous) - An Apology for Poetry (written c. 1579)
1596
- Sir Walter Raleigh - The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana
1597
1598
- John Bodenham - Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth)
- King James VI of Scotland - The Trew Law of Free Monarchies
- Francis Meres - Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury
- John Stow - Survey of London
1599
- John Bodenham - Wits' Theater
New drama
1508
- The World and the Child, also known as Mundas et Infans (probable date of composition)
1531
1536
- Hans Ackermann - Der Verlorene Sohn
1538
- John Bale
- Kynge Johan, the earliest known English historical drama (in verse)
- Three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes, Pharisees and Papystes most wicked
- John Bale
1541
1551
- Marin Držić - Dundo Maroje
1553
- (about 1553) – Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language
- António Ferreira - Bristo
1562
- Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville - Gorboduc
- Jack Juggler - anonymous, sometimes attributed to Nicholas Udall
1566
- George Gascoigne - Supposes
1567
1568
- Ulpian Fulwell - Like Will to Like
1573
1582
- Giovanni Battista Guarini - Il pastor fido
1584
- John Lyly
- George Peele - The Arraignment of Paris
- Robert Wilson - The Three Ladies of London (published)
1588
- George Peele - The Battle of Alcazar (performed)
1589
- The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune - anonymous (published)
1590
- Christopher Marlowe - Tamburlaine (both parts published)
- George Peele - Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
- Robert Wilson - The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London (published)
1591
- John Lyly - Endymion (published)
- The Troublesome Reign of King John - Anonymous (published)
1592
- Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy (published)
- William Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Arden of Faversham - anonymous (previously attributed to Shakespeare)
1594
- Samuel Daniel - Cleopatra
- Robert Greene
- Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (published)
- Orlando Furioso (published)
- Thomas Lodge & Robert Greene - A Looking Glass for London (published)
- Lope de Vega - El maestro de danzar ("The Dancing Master")
- George Peele - The Battle of Alcazar (published)
- William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
- Robert Wilson - The Cobbler's Prophecy (published)
1595
- Anonymous - Locrine (published)
1597
- Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson - The Isle of Dogs
- William Shakespeare - Richard II (published)
1598
- Robert Greene - The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth (published)
- Ben Jonson - Every Man in His Humour
1599
New poetry
1505
1514
- Francesco Maria Molzo - Translation of the Aeneid into Italian, in consecutive unrhymed verse (forerunner of blank verse)
1516
- Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso (first version, April)
1528
- Anna Bijns - Refrains
1530
- Pietro Bembo - Rime
1550
- Sir Thomas Wyatt - Pentential Psalms
1557
1562
1563
- Barnabe Googe - Eclogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets
1567
- George Turberville - Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets
1572
1573
- George Gascoigne - A Hundred Sundry Flowers
1575
- Nicholas Breton - A Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers
- George Gascoigne - The Posies
1576
- The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies
1577
- Nicholas Breton - The Works of a Young Wit and A Flourish upon Fancy
1579
1581
- Torquato Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered
1582
- Thomas Watson - Hekatompathia or Passionate Century of Love
1590
- Sir Philip Sidney - Arcadia
- Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, Books 1-3
1591
- Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella (published posthumously)
1592
- Henry Constable - Diana
1593
- Michael Drayton - The Shepherd's Garland
- Giles Fletcher, the Elder - Licia
1594
- Michael Drayton - Peirs Gaveston
1595
- Thomas Campion - Poemata
1596
- Sir John Davies - Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing
- Michael Drayton - The Civell Warres of Edward the Second and the Barrons
- Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, Books 1-6
1597
- Michael Drayton - Englands Heroicall Epistles
1598
- Lope de Vega
- La Arcadia
- La Dragontea
- Lope de Vega
1599
- Sir John Davies
- Hymnes of Astraea
- Nosce Teipsum
- George Peele - The Love of King David and Faire Bethsabe
- Sir John Davies
Births
- 1503 - Thomas Wyatt
- 1508 - Primož Trubar, author of the first printed books in the Slovene language (died 1586)
- 1510 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1511 - Johannes Secundus (died 1535)
- 1514 - Daniele Barbaro (died 1570)
- 1515 - Roger Ascham
- 1517 - Henry Howard
- c. 1520 - Christophe Plantin, printer (died 1589)
- 1524 - Luís de Camões (died 1580)
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes (died 1616)
- 1551 - William Camden
- 1554 - Philip Sidney
- 1555 - Lancelot Andrewes
- 1558 - Robert Greene
- 1558 - Thomas Kyd
- 1561 - Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (died 1627)
- 1562 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)
- 1564 - Henry Chettle, English dramatist (died 1607)
- 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (died 1593)
- 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist (died 1616)
- 1570 - Robert Aytoun
- 1572 - Ben Jonson, John Donne
- 1576 - John Marston
- 1577 - Robert Burton
- 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo (died 1645)
- 1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
- 1583 - Philip Massinger
- 1587 - Joost van den Vondel
- 1594 - James Howell
Deaths
- 1502 - Henry Medwall
- 1513 - Robert Fabyan
- 1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian publisher (born 1449)
- 1519 - Anna Bülow
- 1534 - Wynkyn de Worde, Lotharingian-born English printer
- 1535 - Johannes Secundus (born 1511)
- 1542 - Sir Thomas Wyatt, English poet (born 1503)
- 1552 - Alexander Barclay
- 1553 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (born c. 1485)
- 1553 - François Rabelais
- 1555 - Polydore Vergil
- 1563 - John Bale
- 1563 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1566 - Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (born 1485?)
- 1568 - Roger Ascham
- 1570 - Daniele Barbaro (born 1514)
- 1577 - George Gascoigne
- 1586 - Primož Trubar, author of the first printed books in the Slovene language (born 1508)
- 1589 - Christophe Plantin, printer (born c. 1520)
- 1592 - Robert Greene
- 1593 - Christopher Marlowe
- 1594 - Thomas Kyd
- 1595 - Luis Barahona de Soto
In literature
- The main action of Peter Shaffer's drama The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964) is set in 1532–33.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 145–148. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
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